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A few weeks ago I was interviewed alongside with letterer Ken Barber and type designer Alejandro Paul by AIGA Eye on Design Blog to weight the recent boom of hand lettering. The article reflects over the influence of social media in the appearance of many who make a go of lettering professionally, the impact of this on the teaching and proliferation of workshops and how to asses a lettering portfolio when searching to hire a letterer. The full article can be read here >>>.

The social media has very much encouraged the appearance of new talents that otherwise wouldn't find so easy to get attention. However, it has also triggered several showcasing accounts with doubtful curating criteria which, by the number of followers they have managed to obtain, seem to have a qualified voice.

Deriving from the previously mentioned article and motivated by a talk that I recently held in Poland, I put together a keynote with several criteria that can help designers to identify and filter good quality lettering pieces from the stream of typographic pieces out there. The talk covers several points, including defining what is lettering and what it's not. Here's a few points to give you a preview now, but I'll be posting this as an article in the next few weeks.

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